Just reading the phrase“Galaxy S4″, my first thought: “seriously, HDC?”.

I first thought that the famousHDCalready made a knock-off for this not yet existing Samsung flagship phone after theRéaltra S3. But then when I checked it out, new thought: “Samsung Galaxy Player”.

But then still, I think I am wrong.

HDC Réaltra S4

It doesnt looks like the previous Galaxy S3 or other Galaxy devices as there isn’t physical home button in the middle anymore.

It cant be the Galaxy Player as the soft-touch Android buttons arent present anymore. Only on-screen ICS buttons.

The shape and flat look shouts Galaxy Player but it isn’t a 5-inch, only at 4.7-inch.

Whatever, it is still a nice looking phone, wait is it really a phone? Yes it is a phone! Not just an Android multimedia device. I wonder where did the guys from HDC got the idea of their HDC Galaxy S4 came, but let’s check out its full package since it seems like an interesting device.

Achoimre

AnHDC Galaxy S4 I9400is a 4.7-inch MTK6575 Android ICS phone, dual-SIM and has a 5 ceamara mó megapixels. The only downer of this one is, it doesn’t have 3G/WCDMAonly EDGE connectivity.

Athbhreithniú a dhéanamh ar

An HDC Galaxy S4 i9400is yes, obviously from HDC. The same manufacturer of the recent hitHDC Réaltra S3 Pro, other HDC S3 variations and other Galaxy knock-offs by HDC. It is using i9400, maybe to follow the naming trend to the S3′s i9300.

ItRitheann ar Android 4.0 ICS out of the box, and has amulti-languagesupport. It sports aMT6575 CPU system, but as they say that they had optimized the system to work like the MT6577 system. I wonder how they did that. It is clocked at 2GHz with the single-core CPU and PowerVR GPU combined. I am a MT6575 user and I can say that this phone is fast as per my experience with such devices of same CPU chip.

The HDC Galaxy S4 has a4.7 inches screen, same as the HDC Galaxy S3. The screen isWVGA only at 480×800 pixel réiteach. No idea if its an IPS one though.

Its camera can be impressive, even though it only have a5MP main camera; its secondary andfront-facing snapper is a 2.0 megapixelsso its an edge for a bit compared with other phones of 8MP/0.3MP camera set. Clearer self-portrait shots or video-call renders is expected.

The HDC Galaxy S4 is adual SIM device, but as I said; having no 3G/HSDPA/WCDMA support is a bit of set back for this one. But that might explain why its price had gone that way low.

It is powered up with a1950MAH Li-ceallraí arwhich is very much enough and higher compared to other handsets of its MT6575 bracket. More app time on single charge for this one, I suppose. Not much to boast with its RAM capacity size, it has a512MB RAMwhich I can say that is very much sufficient again as I never had any problem with RAM management on my beloved MT6575 phone.

Fíorasc

For the price, if you can live a mobile life without 3G connectivity then this phone isnt bad at all. It is over-all good looking, and a good performer even on HD games or high-quality multimedia playback.